[Remote] Software Engineer III

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vertex Inc. is a company that specializes in providing innovative technology solutions. They are seeking a Software Engineer III to lead the development of complex projects, manage timelines, and ensure high-quality deliverables while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of Platform of medium to complex projects from conception to completion, including managing timelines and ensuring high quality; implement features, enhancements, or services end to end based on design and requirements; make architectural decisions, technology choices, and design scalable systems that support long-term growth; provide feedback, ensuring code quality and adhere to best practices; assist in triaging and debugging issues from internal and external customers; collaborate across multiple stakeholders from product and design teams, internal engineering teams, and engage with customers to better understand their needs, and communicate tradeoffs clearly; proactively identify Technical Debt and propose improvements by driving initiatives to improve system reliability, availability, performance, stability, and durability; mentor junior engineers, contributing to their professional growth; regularly engage with end users to identify new or unsolved problems and opportunities; balance speed and quality through effective feedback and observability practices; create unit, integration, and other automated tests to ensure code quality using software engineering best practices such as TDD; assist with bug fixing, maintaining, and supporting software solutions, based on technical design specifications, including analyzing and troubleshooting with minimal supervision; prepare technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents; review functional requirements, analysis, and design documents and provide feedback; and promote Continuous Improvement by identifying process inefficiencies and quality improvements

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 4 years performing infrastructure and automation using AWS, Azure, or GCP
• 4 years performing software development with Java, Python or Go
• 4 years building API's and backend databases with SQL and NoSQL
• 3 years using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD technologies
• 3 years using Pulsar for event driven architecture
• 3 years logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and designing for high availability
• Ability to work 100% remotely within the continental US

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